The Body and Society by Peter Brown, Peter Brown
The Body and Society

Peter Brown, Peter Brown

The Body and Society

Peter Brown, Peter Brown

504 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history religion dark informative slow-paced
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In his monumental book Peter Brown addresses the practice of permanent sexual renunciation--continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity--that developed in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. Brown vividly describes the e...

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